(TOI) Who will form the next government in Punjab? Which party or alliance will get a majority? Is a majority even possible? Here are the latest and live updates from Punjab assembly elections 2017. * Big news: SAD-BJP alliance picks up pace to overtake AAP, now leading in 22 seats as against AAP’s 21. Congress though flying towards the finish line.* Congress’ Navjot Singh Sidhu leading from Amritsar East seat. * Early in the day still but is it indeed a new dawn? He is leading in Patiala constituency but still trailing in Lambi. Congress though faring strong in Punjab…
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(AU) प्रधानमंत्री की लोकप्रियता और उनके सुधार एजेंडों की कसौटी के तौर पर देखे जा रहे पांच राज्यों के चुनाव परिणाम के रुझान आने शुरू हो गए हैं। लोकसभा चुनाव 2019 के सेमीफाइनल के तौर पर भी देखे जा रहे इन चुनावों को गेमचेंजर माना जा रहा है। गाजीपुरः सैदपुर सीट से बीजेपी के विद्यासागर सोनकर आगे – वाराणसी दक्षिणी सीट पर बीजेपी पीछे – अकाली दल के बिक्रम सिंह मजीठिया आगे चल रहे हैं। – मुजफ्फरनगर की 6 सीटों पर बीजेपी आगे चल रही है।
(FE) Counting of votes for the state legislative assembly election in the five states will begin on Saturday morning at 8 AM amidst tight security. The Congress claims that it would come to power in Punjab after a decade. Meanwhile, the election also holds a lot of significance for the Aam Aadmi Party which hopes to put up a good show in its first assembly elections outside Delhi. In Punjab, votes are to be counted at 54 centres across 27 locations in the state with an 117-member assembly. The EC is reported to have issued strict guidelines for the arrangement for…
(FE) Results for the five states, including Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, are due today. Touted as the semifinal before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the outcome of these elections will be seen as a virtual referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and his reforms agenda. The results of Uttar Pradesh will have a bearing on the country’s political landscape. The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance in Uttar Pradesh is hoping to stop the BJP juggernaut, which had earlier stumbled in Bihar and Delhi, and lead the way for opposition unity in the run up to the 2019 General Elections. Congress is…
(ET) NTPC started power generation from India’s largest floating solar power plant at Kayamkulam in Kerala, on Friday. The 100 kWp floating solar generation plant, largest of its kind in India, was indigenously developed as a part of ‘Make In India’ initiative, at Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant (RGCCPP) in Kerala’s Kayamkulam district, the company said in a statement. Solar panels mounted on floating boards that hold them in place saves land usage and has been found to be efficient than the ones installed on land. These floating platform were indigenously developed by NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance, the…
(ET) ONGC has put to production two discoveries it has made in Jorhat district in Assam in 2016-17. After almost three years this is ONGC’s biggest discovery in Assam. Director (Onshore) of ONGC, Ved Prakash Mahawar who was in Guwahati on Friday said, “After three years we have done reserve accretion 10 Million metric tones in Assam. We have made two good discoveries Sufayan and Dayalpur. We are getting production of 50 tones per day from these fields and the overall productioproduction of Jorhat asset have increased from 350 tones per day to 400 tones per day.” He added, “As…
(AT) जैसे जैसे चुनाव परिणामों के रुझान आ रहे हैं, राजनीतिक खेमों में धड़कनें तेज़ होती जा रही हैं. भाजपा को उत्तर प्रदेश में अपने वनवास के खत्म होने का इंतज़ार है. कांग्रेस को 27 साल से बेहाल यूपी में साइकिल का सहारा है. मायावती का हाथी अकेला चला है लेकिन क्या अपने दम पर वो बहुजन समाज पार्टी को सत्ता तक पहुंचा सकेगा या फिर इसबार साइकिल पर बैठेगा हाथी, ऐसे कई सवालों ने मतगणना के कौतुहल को और बढ़ा रखा है. अब तक मिले रुझानों में 244 सीटों में से 176 पर बीजेपी आगे चल रही है. सपा-कांग्रेस…
(Pragativadi) Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan recently visited MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts for an Energy conference and then gave a talk at Harvard last week. During his trip, the Odia community hosted a celebration to welcome him. Members of other Indian communities also participated in the event.
(HT) With the banking sector reeling under the impact of Rs 8 lakh crore stressed assets, the government and Reserve Bank of India on Friday drew up a plan to act on top defaulters.Sources told HT, finance minister Arun Jaitley discussed with RBI officials various options to deal with the menace of non-performing assets (NPAs) which was plaguing the banking system and preventing lenders from lowering interest rates. One of the alternatives that the government and RBI was considering for some time now was to set up of a “bad bank” to deal with the problem of non-performing loans, as it…
(ET) As many as 16 Joint Secretaries have been appointed in different central government departments as part of mid-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected today. Of the total bureaucrats, only six are from Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and rest from other central services like Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and Indian Information Service (IIS), among others. Anita Karwal, a 1988 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, has been appointed Joint Secretary in Department of School .Education and Literacy. Shri Prakash, an officer of Central Secretariat Service, will be JS in Home Ministry, an order issued by Personnel Ministry said. Aparna S Sharma, also from…